Why keep Blue? (Serious)

[Xaanka]

Originally Posted by fan D [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Im not sure why anyone would play on a PvE EQ server. I guess for the love of Everquest. We all know how easy the PVE content is, 99% can be done in Kunark gear only, but people raid velious with 16hour windows like a full-time job for items that will do what? Give you some more hp? Most of the stats have no impact on the game, resists don't matter. Not sure why you raid for loot on blue "SHRUGS"

TRUTH

[Valrok]

Originally Posted by Xaanka [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TRUTH

Much of it is simply a love for the game. You see the majority of players on live played on PVE servers. Maybe because it was what the majority of live servers consisted of but the end results are the same; people wanting to remember and relive those nostalgic experiences.

Most folks appear to enjoy raiding to become better for the same reasons the guys on RED like to raid and become better. There is a basic desire in most gamers to achieve the best gear possible. Whether I am playing a single player RPG or Everquest, I am constantly searching for "the upgrade" if it is out there to be had, and usually take pride in eventually obtaining it. In BLUE's case that desire causes many man hours of camping that RED players love to poke fun at but you see if we were on a server with 70 players we could stroll right in just the same.

Now in the MMO scene this behavior is exacerbated by competition with other players and some folks like to just have bragging rights. ( I am not one of those ).

You cannot deny though that the numbers on RED in comparison to BLUE clearly state where the majority would rather play. Whether RED is a wonderful playground or not, many of us just have zero interest in attempting to pvp on a game that was not designed for such activity but rather added as a second thought just in case someone wanted to play there instead.

[maerilith]

Originally Posted by Valrok [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Much of it is simply a love for the game. You see the majority of players on live played on PVE servers. Maybe because it was what the majority of live servers consisted of but the end results are the same; people wanting to remember and relive those nostalgic experiences.

Most folks appear to enjoy raiding to become better for the same reasons the guys on RED like to raid and become better. There is a basic desire in most gamers to achieve the best gear possible. Whether I am playing a single player RPG or Everquest, I am constantly searching for "the upgrade" if it is out there to be had, and usually take pride in eventually obtaining it. In BLUE's case that desire causes many man hours of camping that RED players love to poke fun at but you see if we were on a server with 70 players we could stroll right in just the same.

Now in the MMO scene this behavior is exacerbated by competition with other players and some folks like to just have bragging rights. ( I am not one of those ).

You cannot deny though that the numbers on RED in comparison to BLUE clearly state where the majority would rather play. Whether RED is a wonderful playground or not, many of us just have zero interest in attempting to pvp on a game that was not designed for such activity but rather added as a second thought just in case someone wanted to play there instead.

You are a major fucking retard.

EQ was designed as a pvp game initially, thats how they sold their alpha version to sony, kewl story about it on the interweb bro

the devs always liked pvp

Your just a dumb shitfuck who doesn't understand pvp and is not a human.

[Seltius]

Originally Posted by maerilith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You are a major fucking retard.

EQ was designed as a pvp game initially, thats how they sold their alpha version to sony, kewl story about it on the interweb bro

the devs always liked pvp......

Everquest was originally a PVE game with flagging(turning in the Tome of Order and Discord to the Priest of Discord) so someone could choose to pvp. Later they added PVP servers that specifically catered to pvp. Now whether this was the intent when the idea was sold to Sony or not PVE content and servers is what was originally released only the folks in the meetings could tell you.

The rest of what you said in your post well your point would have had a better chance of being understood or at least considered without the final line.

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by maerilith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ was designed as a pvp game initially, thats how they sold their alpha version to sony, kewl story about it on the interweb bro

the devs always liked pvp

wut? And so today, reddit in the news.. makin news out of empty space. yup uh-huh

In other words, you are saying.. EQ was originally birthed as like a little boy, but later decided it was going to become a g.i.r.l?
This is starting to explain some of the demography of certain players on eq/p99, and why such players are so connected to eq.

But this is unlikely, was never so mutilated, as Smedly has always been a co-op player, has developed no pure pvp games in his career so far (speaking from his concept work, planetside not attributed). His concept of EQ came from your run of the mill PnP-DnD game that he is a self professed fanatic of pre-dev career. I've read most of Smedly's published dev papers, this sounds more like something a nobody cooked up on a reddit page. Source? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]